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Dept. of Corrections officer arrested after Tacoma standoff

by KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:05 PM

Updated Monday, Jan 30 at 9:22 PM

SEATTLE – Tacoma Police on Monday arrested a Department of Corrections officer near a school after a brief standoff.

Tacoma Police received a call from Skyline Elementary school at 2301 N. Mildred St. around 9:15 a.m. Monday, reporting that a woman was injured in a fight with a man. Police Spokesman Mark Fulghum said the two were dropping off a child at the school. The man left with a young girl still in the car; he later dropped the girl off with relatives.

Police spotted the man as he was headed back toward the school. Officers chased him to a dead end at N. 10th Street and N. Skyline Drive where a standoff ensued. After talking with negotiators, the man gave himself up. A gun was found in his car.

Skyline Elementary was placed in modified lockdown until the suspect was captured.

Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis later confirmed the suspect works at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton and that his brother called around 6 a.m. to report the suspect was “armed and dangerous” and might return to the prison. The prison was placed into lockdown, but the suspect never showed up.

The suspect’s name was not immediately released.

The condition of the woman injured in the initial fight was not released.

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skippypotpiebaby said on February 2, 2012 at 6:50 AM

Good cop Bad cop

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sargemcc said on January 31, 2012 at 12:10 PM

You're Oh so right @starbase 23. Let's just lock up every Correctional Officer, because every one of them is worse than any other kind of scum. Let out all the poor felons, because you know society never really gave them a chance. While you ignorantly paint every Correctional Officer and every cop as being a criminal with impunity you fail to recognize that they do a very important job. Some of them go out of their way to help criminals get straight, have a chance when they get out. And every one of them is putting their life on the line when they go to work. And they do it to keep idiots like you safe.

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bazwest said on January 31, 2012 at 10:55 AM

So much for the career...

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msbetty said on January 31, 2012 at 9:20 AM

@starbase23 -- so when's your release date? You sound like a bitter inmate or ex-inmate.

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jakfb said on January 31, 2012 at 8:45 AM

Sounds like everybody here can do a better job!!! So lets just let out all those chimos, rapos, killers and all you conplainers can deal with them. Good luck

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bloodsurf69 said on January 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM

Do you really need this many police cars to respond. Everything in this story is Hearsay.

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bloodsurf69 said on January 31, 2012 at 7:40 AM

Go Spin Doctors.

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myopinion said on January 31, 2012 at 6:53 AM

dakotanative--Blaming the victim?

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phil49 said on January 31, 2012 at 3:16 AM

Many Felony crimes committed by DOC employees are not referred to the police or prosecutor for chrages. They have their own internal affairs unit that investigates and buries crimes. They usually allow the person to quit, terminate or even transfer to another institution or agency. Perhaps the Attorney General could explain why this is?

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mommy30 said on January 31, 2012 at 2:51 AM

@dakotanative.....what part of this makes her a psycho????? He is the one with a gun and beat her!!! And @ sirreal....ill take your 110% and raise you another that he isnt irish:-)

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andyblue555 said on January 31, 2012 at 12:43 AM

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damask there's really not that big of a difference. In the women prison in upstate Washington 6 officers repeatedly took inmates to dark areas (no cameras) and raped them. The tax payers paid these women 1.5 MILLION dollars and the tax payers flipped the bill to install all new cameras in the prison. The guards were aloud to quit or got fired and are free to rape again without worry. I called the prison administrator because something seemed to be missing and I was told that sometimes there isn't enough evidence and sometimes it isn't in the budget. Not in the budget??? There never seems to be a lack of funds in the budget to prosecute the rest of us. There was enough evidence for the tax payers to pay the women a lump sum. This is blatant corruption and no one seems to care because there always seems to be this attitude that because they wear a badge they should be held to a lower standard of the law. Its PATHETIC!

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rite2post said on January 31, 2012 at 12:12 AM

I hope he was nice to the prisoners.... if not, payback can really be a pain in the rear end.

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fauxhawk said on January 30, 2012 at 11:03 PM

Sounds like another officer type person with power and it went to his head! Glad they stopped him before someone really got hurt!

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damask said on January 30, 2012 at 10:41 PM

@Andyblue55 great story, but you do realize that this officer is not a county employee?What people forget it there are state correctional officers and county officers...big difference.

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Sir_Real said on January 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM

I will bet 110% this guy was a crazy Irishman!

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myopinion said on January 30, 2012 at 9:04 PM

jakfb Try reading the story---- “armed and dangerous”

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freedomfrank said on January 30, 2012 at 8:19 PM

Sorry , that was for jakfb,, not Andy

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freedomfrank said on January 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM

Hmmmmmmm Andy,, are the 15 plus police cruisers jumping to conclusions too? Good grief dude,, sometimes, just sometimes if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it just might be a duck. Please explain away the standoff instead of this idiot just doing what he was told to by the cops?

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dakotanative said on January 30, 2012 at 6:23 PM

Guess this shows that even spouses of officers are psycho.

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phil49 said on January 30, 2012 at 5:45 PM

sxycj -- No, it does not anymore. I called them about the error and it has been corrected..

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sxycj said on January 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM

Phil in the article it doesn't state anything about the Committment Center. The Shelton DOC is where the inmates go to when they first enter to find out what prison they will be going to. They don't have the committment center there. That I do believe is still on McNeil Island. I think you need to reread the article.

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phil49 said on January 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM

Just what is a DOC officer doing working at the Committment Center? The Committment Center is operated by DSHS not DOC. Something is wrong with this story.

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andyblue555 said on January 30, 2012 at 4:33 PM

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I am not surprised that this is a correction officer. These "types" work in all our prison throughout Washington state. One correction officer Richard Harr almost beat an inmate to death in King County Jail just this past year. Four other correction officers testified that the inmate was following orders and did nothing to warrant this beating which involved choking him unconscious and kicking and stomping his head and neck repeatedly. An emergency room physician testified that the inmate suffered life threatening injuries and it took a team to save his life. Yet he received a misdemeanor thanks to yet another sweet deal from our prosecutors and their close relationship with our police departments. Even the judge said he was undercharged but then accepted this deal. Again a prime example of the blatantly low standards that our officers are held to. These officer mistreat inmates and then they are release onto the public. It is disgusting.

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